Critisizing other religions is worng path

Intermediate Steps Of Worship Need Not Be Mocked

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

Swami replied: Adishesha is in the form of a serpent. That does not mean that every serpent is Adishesha. Hanuman is in the form of a monkey. That does not mean that every monkey is Hanuman. The deity of justice is in the form of a cow. It does not mean that every cow is deity of justice. The vehicle of Lord Shiva is a bull, which does not mean that every bull is the vehicle of Lord Shiva. A specific rat is vehicle of Lord Ganesha, which does not mean that every rat is the vehicle of Lord Ganesha. Rama and Krishna are the human incarnations, which mean that God is in a specific human form. This does not mean that every human being is God. We must remember that Krishna killed Kamsa, who is a human being. This itself proves that every human being is not human incarnation. If every human being is God as said by Advaita Philosophers, Gopikas need not worship Krishna since they are God by themselves being the human beings.

Therefore, the actual truth is very clear.

However, there are two paths of worship: one is called 'Saakshaat Upaasanam' in which Adishesha or Human incarnation is directly worshiped and this path is not easily available to all the humanity. The second path is to worship a serpent or a statue of serpent assuming as Adishesha or worship a human being or statue in human form assuming as God and this is called as 'Prateeka Upaasanam' or the worship of a representative model. The second type of worship is easily available to all the human beings for improving their devotion. This is only a training process of the real concept. The Hindu traditional practice exists in which an ordinary human being is invited and worshiped by giving food etc., treating him as God. Such practice is called as 'Aaposhanam'. Such independent worship of rat does not exist anywhere. Since such practice is only an intermediate step in long spiritual journey, one need not mock because it is not the final stage of final truth. You are saluting the national flag assuming that you are saluting the mother land of the entire nation and this is to develop devotion to your mother land. The flag is representative model of the nation.

You need not take a helicopter and go around the nation to salute it. If people are not mocking such salutation to the national flag, why should they mock at these traditional practices of Hinduism? It is only the attitude of enmity to another religion criticising the form of God of that religion. In the divine forms of all the religions, the same single unimaginable God exists. If you mock at a divine form of other religion, you are mocking the divine form of your own religion. You respect your father in white shirt and beat him in the red shirt! Are you not finally beating your own father? You are recognising your father through colour of the shirt only and not through his characteristic personality. This unfortunate ignorance resulting from lack of sharp analysis is damaging the harmony of religions and peace of this world. Such behaviour will make God furious and such fools are going to be punished severely in this world as well as in the upper world (hell).